Engagement: Leonard — Vashro

Hartland — Charlene and Thomas Leonard, of Hartland, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Chelsea Leonard, to Layne Vashro.

The bride-to-be is a resident of Leipzig, Germany. She graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 2003 and earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 2007. She has a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Utah, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree while she conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

The bridegroom-to-be is the son of Kimberly Vashro, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Joseph Vashro, of Atlanta, Ga. He graduated from the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Minn., in 2002 and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 2007. He has a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Utah and is pursuing a doctoral degree there.